Thursday, December 3, 2009
i didn’t update on my progress in the one hundred days challenge yesterday, because i am rubbish, and also because i was very tired after my last tutorial of term. nevertheless, i made sure to read a poem that i had never read before. it was by glyn maxwell, from the book hide now. i [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
… to make me a better person. the information on which is here. i am taking part, obviously. i have pledged to read at least one poem that i have never read before every day for 100 days. and i’m going to try to write at least one poem a week but we’ll see how [...]
thought i’d kick this off once more with a new poem. it’s not great and i can’t see it ever being particularly good, so i probably won’t do much more with it, but any suggestions are welcome. butter fingers You stitched a butterfly across my back. Lopsided, it blinked in the light as I tugged [...]
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complete block. this isn’t even anything. FIRE Candles were covering the floor when I got back like a cloth that you’d forgotten to pick up – some of them were face down in their own ashes and oil, some still pointed at the ceiling. None of them were lit, I realise that you’re not that [...]
am aware that i’m still clocking these in at post-midnight, but whatever. i can’t stop listening to the decemberists’ eli the barrow boy. THATCH I hid our treasure in the straw so that the thieves wouldn’t find them – the hoard above the eaves was of greater worth than the jewels I lay out on [...]
every april, in america, is national poetry month, and lots of people try writing a poem every single day of the month. i’m not in america, but i like trying to write poetry. this is my third attempt at the challenge. i will post my poems in this blog and you can laugh at them. [...]
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